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December 2012

If there are LEGOmation trailers for Shawn of the Dead and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, then it was only a matter of time before one for The Dark Knight Rises graced YouTube. SEE ALSO: 10 Best LEGO Music Videos on YouTube From the creators of sev...

Gathering census data is essential to understanding how a population connects to a particular geographical space. The U.S. requires thousands of agents to complete one census every 10 years. In 2012, however, one young Swedish man took it upon himsel...

John McAfee, the software pioneer who is wanted for questioning by Belize police in relation to the death if his neighbor, is being extradited to the United States. McAfee boarded a plane headed for Miami, Fla. at approximately 4 p.m. ET Wednesday af...

Tumblr has had a rough afternoon. The site went down for a few minutes Wednesday afternoon, and while a few pages have appeared to return, most of the site is still down for the count. Tumblr acknowledged the issue when it began with a tweet from its...

What's Bill Clinton been up to in post-presidential life? Well, aside from founding the Clinton Global Initiative, it looks like he's been working on a pretty great collection of cowboy boots. Clinton gave the the keynote speech at Dell World, an ann...

Tracking your daily progress on a fitness or food app — in addition to eating superfoods, exercising regularly and maintaining healthy sleep schedule — could take your weight loss to a whole new level. The weight-loss study led by Bonnie Spring, Ph.D...

Google has updated its Google Currents social news reading app to make it easier to find breaking news and browse content from multiple sources. Similar to Flipboard, Pulse and Zite, Google Currents is an aggregator of various publications presented ...

How would you like to have a smartphone with two screens, one on the front and one on the back? That's the innovation behind the YotaPhone, an Android smartphone with a 4.3-inch LCD display on the front and an E-Ink screen on the back. Having two scr...

Three years ago this week, something unforgettable entered our lives that is etched forever into the time devoted to dawdling -- join us in wishing Angry Birds a happy, happy third birdday. To celebrate its third year, Rovio introduced 30 new levels ...

North Korea launched a missile that put an unknown object into Earth's orbit on Wednesday, triggering condemnation from the United States, the United Nations and others. Those objections are against North Korea's use of a long-range rocket to launch ...

Laptops are getting even more powerful. Even though their processors are steadily becoming more efficient and running cooler, most of them still need at least one noisy fan to keep a machine's innards from melting into a useless heap of parts. Now th...

Using Google to search for pornography? Your job just got a lot more difficult. As an intrepid Reddit user discovered, searching for terms that should lead to adult content on Google's image search show content that is less X-rated than some might an...

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